With your help, Redmap will be tracking the following fish around Australia. Some of these fish may be common along your coastline - but have you spotted any that aren't normally found at your local diving, fishing or swimming spots? Redmap is interested in sightings where fish have ventured away from their usual home range. You can sort this list by region and fish species or common name. And just a short note: when we talk about "fish", technically we're talking about "bony fishes" (not sharks and rays which have cartilaginous skeletons!). Bony fishes are the biggest and most diverse group of vertebrate in the world.

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  Western wirrah

  Acanthistius serratus

  The Western wirrah has a pale green-brown body with small spots that merge into lines on the head. They are commonly found in caves in sout…

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  Foxfish

  Bodianus frenchii

  Wrasse like, bright red to reddish above and white below with prominent yellow blotches on side, prefers deeper areas and occasionally caug…

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  Australian pineapplefish

  Cleidopus gloriamaris

  Pineapplefish have a distinctly rounded body covered with a mosaic of yellow plate like scales with black lines between them. They are occa…

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  Mahi mahi

  Coryphaena hippurus

  Common to global tropical waters. This is a highly migratory species, not common to southern waters in Australia. This species is very brig…

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  Estuary perch

  Macquaria colonorum

  Mostly silver, darker grey above, fins are grey except for whitish anal fin. Juveniles are slightly mottled or streaked on sides with dark …

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  Footballer sweep

  Neatypus obliquus

  White with six distinctive brown edged yellow stripes which occur obliquely across the body and yellow fins. Length: Up to 24 cm

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  Tailor

  Pomatomus saltatrix

  Distributed from northern New South Wales across southern mainland Australia to Western Australia. Tailor are also known in recent years to…

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  Banded sweep

  Scorpis georgiana

  Deep bodied with grey to brownish grey above and silver below with two broad dark bands. Length: Up to 46 cm

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  Yellowfin whiting

  Sillago schomburgkii

  The body of the yellow-fin whiting is sandy brown to sandy yellow in colour with yellow ventral fins. The body lacks striping in the adult…

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  Yellowfin tuna

  Thunnus albacares

  Yellowfin tuna have yellow dorsal and anal fins which are scythe shaped in larger adults and no striations on the underside of the liver. D…